Like most business people, if you invest, and do not have access to buckets of money, you have to invest in the short term to recouperate your investment. Investing in a football club is lunacy and for some unknown reason many a grown man has gambled their entire fortunes to have the feeling of owning a club.
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Like most business people, if you invest, and do not have access to buckets of money, you have to invest in the short term to recouperate your investment. Investing in a football club is lunacy and for some unknown reason many a grown man has gambled their entire fortunes to have the feeling of owning a club.
PUSB-We_are_going_up
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They’re gonna go from one of the youngest average squad in the Championship to the oldest average squad in League 1
bawtryneal
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How to become a millionaire…..start out as a billionaire and then buy a football club.
KenilworthSkyBlue
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You can see what they're trying to do. They've pretty much lost the majority of their squad so I assume they're trying to bring in leaders/experience in every area of the pitch and build around them.
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Liam Kelly would be perfect for them.
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Just read that the efl are limiting Derby to a wage budget of no more than eight million next year how will they manage.
Supposedly his family prefers living in the UK to the US, and the DC area is a painfully dull place to live in any case. Meanwhile DC United are a perennially underperforming (and currently extremely crap) team in a league where the transfer restrictions and playoff format make it very difficult to achieve sustained success.
Maybe he’s encouraged by success stories like Jesse Marsch and Patrick Vieira but it seems to me like he’s taking the comfortable option here.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Well if he’s an outright failure there then his chances of managing in the Premier League are probably over (Phil Neville’s reputation now is worse than it was before he left England Women for Inter Miami). So it’s not entirely risk free. On the other hand, if he goes out there and DC United dominate (very unlikely) then it’s a case of “it’s only MLS”.
Seems to me like he just wants an easier/low stakes job out of the limelight.
SlowerThanPlatt
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D.C. United Name Wayne Rooney as Head Coach | DC United
36-Year-Old Former D.C. United, English Premier League, and International Superstar Returns to the Club as Head Coach Following Two Years Managing in England WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 12, 2022) – D.C. United announced today that Wayne Rooney has been named as the club’s new Head Coach. Rooney, who...
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SlowerThanPlatt
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Interview in The Athletic today:
“I firmly believe I can manage in the Premier League,” said Rooney. “I don’t think that’s an issue at all for me. But as I’ve stated quite clearly there’s a couple of clubs I want to manage in the Premier League and in order for me to get there I want to make sure I do everything right, that I gain the best experience I can. There’s managers who wouldn’t move out of England to manage. My mantra is: the more knowledge I can gain over the next few years, the more adaptable and experienced I’ll be to put myself in a position to manage at the top level, and coming back to D.C., I really feel — I’ve seen some of the comments from the journalists back home in England, I feel it’s really disrespectful to the MLS, the MLS is a good league, a tough league to manage in and to play in and so I feel this is a challenge for me.”
theathletic.com
“I firmly believe I can manage in the Premier League,” said Rooney. “I don’t think that’s an issue at all for me. But as I’ve stated quite clearly there’s a couple of clubs I want to manage in the Premier League and in order for me to get there I want to make sure I do everything right, that I gain the best experience I can. There’s managers who wouldn’t move out of England to manage. My mantra is: the more knowledge I can gain over the next few years, the more adaptable and experienced I’ll be to put myself in a position to manage at the top level, and coming back to D.C., I really feel — I’ve seen some of the comments from the journalists back home in England, I feel it’s really disrespectful to the MLS, the MLS is a good league, a tough league to manage in and to play in and so I feel this is a challenge for me.”
Wayne Rooney sees D.C. United as path forward: ‘I firmly believe I can manage in the Premier League’
After a tumultuous first managerial job, Rooney jumps into a new role in a familiar place
theathletic.com
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shepardo01
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Didn't think he could build a squad when individual wages were limited to ONLY 12k p/w as part of their coming out of administration business plan!!!
Poor Derby!!.....
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Without his coach Rooney isn’t the same
skybluegod
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Didn't think he could build a squad when individual wages were limited to ONLY 12k p/w as part of their coming out of administration business plan!!!
Poor Derby!!.....
There is no way Conor Hourihane is on less 12k P/W, where have you seen this? Or was this prior to the guys takeover when the dale evans 2.0 was planning on coming in?
shepardo01
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It has been reported, and pitied!!
This was as part of the new guys takeover.
When I said ONLY 12k, that was sarcasm, as that would be pretty much top whack here!!
shepardo01
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